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Part blistering espionage thriller, part riveting police procedural, and part piercing exposé on social injustice, this second book in the Millennium series is a masterful, endlessly satisfying novel.Look for The Girl Who Takes an Eye for an Eye featuring Lisbeth Salander, coming September 12th.

Mikael Blomkvist, crusading publisher of the magazine Millennium, has decided to run a story that will expose an extensive sex trafficking operation. On the eve of its publication, the two reporters responsible for the article are murdered, and the fingerprints found on the murder weapon belong to his friend, the troubled genius hacker Lisbeth Salander. Blomkvist, convinced of Salander’s innocence, plunges into an investigation. Meanwhile, Salander herself is drawn into a murderous game of cat and mouse, which forces her to face her dark past.

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Amazon Best of the Month, July 2009:The girl with the dragon tattoo is back. Stieg Larsson's seething heroine, Lisbeth Salander, once again finds herself paired with journalist Mikael Blomkvist on the trail of a sinister criminal enterprise. Only this time, Lisbeth must return to the darkness of her own past (more specifically, an event coldly known as "All the Evil") if she is to stay one step ahead--and alive. The Girl Who Played with Fire is a break-out-in-a-cold-sweat thriller that crackles with stunning twists and dismisses any talk of a sophomore slump. Fans of Larsson's prior work will find even more to love here, and readers who do not find their hearts racing within the first five pages may want to confirm they still have a pulse. Expect healthy doses of murder, betrayal, and deceit, as well as enough espresso drinks to fuel downtown Seattle for months. --Dave Callanan
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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This was a pretty good read, but it was a struggle through the first half. Since I've lived in the states all my life I'm not familiar with Sweden at all even if I am half Swede. All the weird spelling of names that I couldn't even begin to pronounce for the town's, streets, places, and people made it a real struggle to keep track of what was going on where with who. When there started being long histories of several characters that didn't really have that big of part in the story I almost gave up on it. It only in the last 10% of the book that it all started to get tied together and interesting again. Perhaps it has been far too long since I've read anything other than quick fun fantasy adventure fiction. By the time I had finished reading this I found that it was a very interesting and entertaining book and I'm glad that I didn't give up on it. So now it's on to the next book in the set.

Book 1 was excellent and the author has created a sequel worthy of respect in its own right. If you enjoy perplexing mysteries that make you feel like you know all the facts known to the protagonist and are still surprised by the turn of events, this book is a must read! You will not be disappointed. Enjoy. On to book 3.

If you loved "The Girl With Dragon Tattoo", you will love this one too. For me first book in this series is the best one, I am not sure why author included some incidents which are not at all related to the main story. Sometimes got bored reading background of some random characters and sexual explorations of main characters but got glued to the book after 60% of the story from where all the parts fall in place.

one of my favorite books ever. I am hoping that more books continue on this full series. I realize that the author is no longer around, do to mysterious circumstances, and the last book was written by someone else, but even that being said one would never have known this if not told. this is the first time I have ever experienced this in reading a series originally written by someone else. The new author that took over for the last book did such an extremely good job that it was like reading or listening to the same author. Very impressive.I hope there are movies in English for all of these books soon.I have seen two movies, one in English and the other not (which I didn't finish watching as I don't like having to read subtitles. but to put all the books in English and in m ovies would be wonderful and I hope they do this. Best books I have ever read. Incredible rendition of a true event.

The book was so SLOW! The original characters are still really good and interesting, especially Salander. But the book is so slow! Page after page the story goes nowhere and you're forced to read 5 pages at a time about meaningless details about unimportant character's jobs, lives, dates etc. I actually for tired of reading and realizing I was only at 18% of the book. For the first time ever I just read a synopsis online just to find out how it ended. Reading over and over again how the main character just keeps on getting more and more enemies gets really tiring and a little ridiculous and how apparently 95% of men in Sweden are sexist, neanderthal-like pigs is even more annoying. I was so disappointed since I enjoyed the other two books so much (except for the rapes)and this one was also worth so much more than the other two.

Three people are murdered at the little town of Enskede and Odenplan, and it is the task of Mikael Blomkvist and his colleagues at Millenium to discover who did it.

We hear about Blomkvist and the team at Millenium who must investigate the crime. While the names can be a bit difficult to remember, it is interesting reading. Larsson gives a lot of background information that helps the reader to understand the various roles that the people have in the investigation.

Lisbeth Salander plays a major role in the book; we learn about her idiosyncrasies and learns more about her, as she is suspected of killing the three persons. But it is also interesting to follow the investigation at Millenium, and in particular the role that Mikael Blomkvist plays in the story.

"The Girl Who Played With Fire" is an excellent book by Stieg Larsson, and in my opinion better than the preceding book in the trilogy, "The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo". The ending is propably the best part, so if you feel that the book is a bit long, don't give up; you have the best and most exciting part of the book to look forward to.

I only gave this four stars as I think that the first 20% of the book can be skipped.SPOILER ALERT. Basically she travels around the world and has some adventures that have nothing whatsoever to do with the rest of the story. If he had dropped this part and started when she arrives back in Sweden I would have given this a higher rating. Once back in Sweden the story takes off and has many twists to keep you turning the pages. The book has very good pacing once back and kept me guessing as to what actually had occured and who had done what to whom. Although this is a still a dark tale of the soul, unlike the first book there is not as much explicit description of sexual deviation as in the first book. The author creates characters that seem real. They may not like each other for some vague reasons or even no reason at all, just like life. On a lighter note , at least in the early oughts in Sweden, it seemed to me as though they must have consumed huge amounts of coffee. It was as though throughout the book everyone is either drinking coffee or making coffee or offering to make coffee .